Healthy urban governance and population health: Participatory budgeting in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

The Urban Transformation: Health, Shelter and Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 63-81

  Vlahov, David ^a,b   Caiaffa, Waleska Teixeira ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

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EID: 84917478366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203107683     Document Type: Chapter

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